Teen Cancer Patient Reunites With Father After His Release From ICE Detention

PORTAGE PARK — When Ruben Torres Maldonado walked through the back door of his home Thursday night, he was greeted by a handful of family members — but it was his 4-year-old son, Nathan, who had the first question.

“Papi, what take you so long?”

Torres Maldonado, 40, had been detained since Oct. 18, when federal immigration agents arrested him in the parking lot of a suburban Niles Home Depot. His attorneys said he was taken without explanation and held in overcrowded, unsanitary conditions at ICE’s Broadview center…

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